Kidnapped {ic}

Aylin sighed loudly around being quickly woken by the loud and annoying sound of the pot and spoon clashing. It was the normal wake up call but she still was not used to it, despite hearing it for most of the last eight years. As irritating as the sound was and as much as she wanted to fall back asleep, she didn't. If her parents didn't see her downstairs with the kidnapped kids, she would be in trouble and that was the last thing that she wanted from her parents. John and Laura were not like normal parents, and Aylin knew that she didn't live a normal life. She had never left the plantation that her father owned and she had never been brought to a school or taught from home. The eight-year-old did not know how to read or how to conduct more than very simple addition or subtraction, and she did not know how to write her own name. If it weren't for the kidnapped children speaking about their lives away from the plantation, she would have never known about the outside world.

One last bang to the pot caused Aylin to arise from her warm bed. She slipped over to the wooden dresser, that her father had one of the past workers make five years, and pulled out a light blue dress that she had recieved the previous year as a birthday gift. She didn't know where the casual dress was from, because she did not leave with her father when he left the plantation to sell their crops, but she was greatful for it anyway. After sliding on a pair of white sneakers, she tied her blonde hair into a pony-tail using a piece of blue ribbon that matched her dress. Once she had finished, she slowly made her way out of her bedroom and down the hall, past the rooms of the workers and downstairs. Her mother and father were waiting down there and Aylin offered a small smile as a good morning before walking into the kitchen and looking around. Despite being told to help the girls out with making meals and cleaning the house, Aylin never really did it. She would do it if her mother was watching, but if she was in the dining room, like she was now, Aylin would just sit around and watch the others do it.